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...Class Day Spread Committee has announced that Saturday, June 10, will be the last day for receiving applications for the Class Day Spread and in view of this fact urges Seniors to purchase their tickets as soon as possible in order to avoid an unnecessary confusion on the final...
...chooses the wiser method of teaching those things the multitude can hear, he may sustain himself without resort to the tender mercies of trustees, presidents; and bursars. His earnings may, indeed, be sufficient to lift him above the feelings of indigence so destructive to free thinking. He may avoid commencement oration, Phi Beta Kappa addresses, the conferring of honorary degrees faculty meetings, examinations, and pestiferous students. No Carnegie pension lulls him into cheap security and carries him gently downward to the serene futility of a retired Indian civil servant. He can teach in the great forum of the wide world...
...most important link in the British chain of dominions, and they would therefore govern their policy so as the prevent India from breaking away. In other words, English foreign policy would be controlled by India. For this reason, England will not give home-rule if she can avoid dogie so, and will fight bitterly all Indian attempts to gain it. At last, the day will come when India will rise as one man, overthrow the British domination, and set up a United States of India, with a republican government. That day will bring success to the cause of the India...
...think it, the evidence will be in the fact that selfish national interests were to some degree sublimated. So to hear that Germany is trying to minimize her reparations bill; that France wants to exact an unreasonable sum for Germany and Russia; that the Soviet is attempting to avoid payment of debts and at the same time secure recognition and a large loan; that England and Italy are pursuing a moderate course because it favors their economic interests--to hear this from Mr. Vanderlip and other reporters is to hear the expected...
However, Mr. Hearst's warm friends and admirers have assured him that he is the man of the hour and that he can count on them to create an issue if necessary to make him popular. Thus reassured, the "people's choice" has retired, to avoid influencing anybody in any way. This natural shrinking from publicity is strangely reminiscent of that memorial of his generosity--the vast Greek stadium given to a university in California. On the inside of this, in letters of green three feet high, it is said, is the inscription: "Given by William Randolph Hearst...